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Hey all. I know we haven’t posted in a long long time, but I’ve been keeping the blog active because some of the older strategy-focused posts still seem to be pretty popular. So anyway, just wanted to say…

29 DAYS TIL FOOTBALL HOLY CRAP

Brandon and I do most of our fantasy footballing on Yahoo. We’ve had our complaints with them over the years, but for what it’s worth, no matter how many times we try other sites we always come crawling back to the big purple Y. It’s hard to complain about a free, high-quality service that – at least until this year – didn’t go too over-the-top with the advertising.

Until this year, that is. If you’re a Yahoo! FF user, you’ve no doubt noticed the new Medals and Hall of Fame “features” that are brought to us by our friends at Toyota. The medals are accompanied by some of the most obnoxious prose ever written, and the medal I “won” this week finally broke me:

Venza Head Turner

Just like the Toyota Venza, you’ve got all the eyes on you. You squeaked by with the smallest margin of victory — so enjoy the W and the Head Turner medal.

That did it. I wrote a Chrome extension to banish this nonsense from my sight. It worked like a charm, so I’m sharing it here. The one thing it doesn’t catch right now is the pop-up medal notifications, but I’ll add those soon.

Couldn’t agree more! You play fantasy to win, anything less of winning is losing and no little Yahoo! medal will make losing feel any better. Additionally, we play for a season not for a game, if the NFL gave out awards for teams wining individual games, the Bills would actually have won something recently. No one is complaining about ads on the side of the website but shoving it in our faces gets me super rattled. Glad to seem someone coming out with an extension to banish these ads, well done

i have to start 5 of these players today…please choose. 1pt ppr. T RICH, Marcel Reece, Vincent JAckson, Vick Ballard, Cecil Shorts, Pierre Garcon, Brandon LLoyd and Joique Bell…PLEASE HELP…i am on the fence about the final 2 as i know VJAX TRICH AND REECE ARE MUST STARTS

Thanks for sharing. I can’t wait to try this. I noticed “All content…reproduction w/o permission prohibited.”
Do you mind if I include a link to this post on ffanonymous.net if (and only if) the crap blocker is awesome?

I’ve been following you all for some time. Your advice helped me win my league last year. Trying to repeat. Witten @SEA or sleeper TE of the week, Fleener @MIN? Sorry you guys are taking a “hiatus”, but the fans need the geeks!! lol

I have Santonio Holmes. I need to drop him obviously. Here are some WR’s that are still available in my league: Rashad Jennings, Cedric Benson, Shane Vereen, Dustin Keller, Pierre Thomas, Greg Little, Kendall Wright, Davone Bess, and Felix Jones. Any suggestions?

Longtime reader e-roc sent us an email asking about resources we’d recommend now that we’re posting less frequently. Here are my recommendations. Brandon, please feel free to edit the post with your own…

Guys, not sure if I shared- but have been a long time follower of the blog and came away with the fantasy cup last year in my 3rd year in the league of fairly experienced aussies. Thanks for all the help- victory last year was insanely good- we have huge bragging rights in the league.

Well then, I’m still curious. How’d you get into fantasy football as an Aussie? Care to share your experience in a guest post?

The three leagues that Brandon and I have been in for a long time typically draft at the end of August. I’m in a “couples league” with my wife that drafted a couple of weeks ago. It went OK, though I surprised myself by drafting Adrian Peterson against my own better judgement. He fell to the 4th round, I’d only drafted one RB so far, and there were no high-ceiling RBs left, so I had to take him.

Hmm- I’m not sure what was the original drive of the friends who got me into it. I’m going to say, Madden or Friday Night Lights- + it just getting a bit more airtime over here. happy to Ellaborate on the story in full for you. AP in the 4th round i think is a bargain- i’m hoping if I take a RB at pick 4 (in a 10 man) there is a top tier QB left in round 2!

A little help. What is the best draft analyzer software for Mac? I so one in the app store for $45, that’s not happening 🙂 Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, my draft is next Tues Sept. 4 and I’m the defending champ went 12-1 seeing if I can get that 1 more win

Hey all! I need some defense advice…I currently have Baltimore, however, I am reading a lot of BUST talk. The New York Giants and Buffalo Bills are still available. Would you stick with Ravens or other??
Thanks

OK, it was probably pretty obvious given that it’s almost August and we haven’t posted in months. This is normally our highest-volume time of the year, when everyone’s getting ready for the draft and coming to sites like ours for advice. We wish that we had the time to fully participate in that conversation this year, but both of our lives are considerably busier now than they were a couple of years ago.

When we have something interesting to say and time to say it, we will, but we won’t be posting regular weekly features (sit/start, waiver wire, etc.) this season.

Also, we’re calling this a hiatus because if/when Brandon and I feel like we have enough time on our hands to return to posting regularly, we will. I know he’s got a lot going on, and my hands are full with two kids still in diapers, but things change. You never know.

Above all else, thanks to everyone who has made this more of a community than a blog. If any of our regular commenters (you know who you are) are interested in guest posting from time to time, we’re open to that. Just let us know.

Oh, and… just one thing I have to mention: Stay the heck away from AP this year, OK? There’s going to be someone in every draft who wildly overspends on him based on name recognition and past performance alone; don’t let that be you. Sorry, just had to get that out. I’m done.